Comments on: New DigiKey! http://www.ladyada.net/rant/2007/01/new-digikey/ afowejfaiwuehfakjnfa Wed, 19 Nov 2008 14:57:27 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.3 By: Ben Jackson http://www.ladyada.net/rant/2007/01/new-digikey/#comment-688 Ben Jackson Sat, 10 Feb 2007 23:41:56 +0000 http://www.ladyada.net/rant/?p=46#comment-688 I had to *make an account* just to log in and say: Jameco sucks! I have a "Jameco pile of shame" that I refer to whenever I'm tempted to use them again. I've got at least two 1/16th inch soldering tips that should be 1/64th. Plus my favorite, a tube of 74HC174 that I got because (as I later figured out) a search for 74HC164 turned up 4 options, the cheapest of which was not, in fact, a '164 at all. I wish for 3 things on Digikey's site: 1) Sort by price. 2) A global setting to say "I will never by more than X of anything", to filter out the 3000-unit reels. You can sort of emulate this by selecting every packaging format besides "tape and reel". 3) A way to register your preference for common attributes like package. If you shop for voltage regulators, for example, the option box for package has 100 items. I'd just like to say somewhere up front, "I'm okay with DPak, but I don't like BGA, CSP, 0201, etc." I had to *make an account* just to log in and say: Jameco sucks! I have a “Jameco pile of shame” that I refer to whenever I’m tempted to use them again. I’ve got at least two 1/16th inch soldering tips that should be 1/64th. Plus my favorite, a tube of 74HC174 that I got because (as I later figured out) a search for 74HC164 turned up 4 options, the cheapest of which was not, in fact, a ‘164 at all.

I wish for 3 things on Digikey’s site:

1) Sort by price.

2) A global setting to say “I will never by more than X of anything”, to filter out the 3000-unit reels. You can sort of emulate this by selecting every packaging format besides “tape and reel”.

3) A way to register your preference for common attributes like package. If you shop for voltage regulators, for example, the option box for package has 100 items. I’d just like to say somewhere up front, “I’m okay with DPak, but I don’t like BGA, CSP, 0201, etc.”

]]> By: boggie http://www.ladyada.net/rant/2007/01/new-digikey/#comment-626 boggie Sun, 28 Jan 2007 03:33:14 +0000 http://www.ladyada.net/rant/?p=46#comment-626 Too bad that it kept crashing, to the point they have gone back to their "Classic" interface. Hope they get the new one back up soon. Too bad that it kept crashing, to the point they have gone back to their “Classic” interface.

Hope they get the new one back up soon.

]]> By: recursive http://www.ladyada.net/rant/2007/01/new-digikey/#comment-541 recursive Tue, 16 Jan 2007 18:26:10 +0000 http://www.ladyada.net/rant/?p=46#comment-541 Cool. And thanks for reminding me that I'd been meaning to place an order. Cool. And thanks for reminding me that I’d been meaning to place an order.

]]> By: ladyada http://www.ladyada.net/rant/2007/01/new-digikey/#comment-539 ladyada Mon, 15 Jan 2007 22:42:33 +0000 http://www.ladyada.net/rant/?p=46#comment-539 Jameco itself is awesome but the search mechanism and online catalog is severely broken Jameco itself is awesome
but the search mechanism and online catalog is severely broken

]]> By: logan http://www.ladyada.net/rant/2007/01/new-digikey/#comment-538 logan Mon, 15 Jan 2007 22:35:41 +0000 http://www.ladyada.net/rant/?p=46#comment-538 What's wrong with Jameco? What’s wrong with Jameco?

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